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History
The Movements of Fire and Shadow team is including an Earthforce Nova-class Dreadnought in their mod. They are not including this particular model, however. Nonetheless, work went into this effect, so it gets its own page! The Nova is a ship bristling with weaponry; 18 double-barreled turrets just begging to go flying when the ship meets its end. Notice it is the ship that meets its end, not the crew. They bail out in thirty lifepods launched from the reddish panels on the sides of the ship. The texture corruption in the screenshots has been fixed, and, oh yeah, all frigates will explode into Novas, a quirk of the Homeworld engine.
Instructions
Unzip novadeath.ebg into homeworld\ Open etg\r1.script and change the Frigate death event lines to:
setDeathEvent R1,CLASS_Frigate,damage,DestMOFASnova.ebg setDeathEvent R1,CLASS_Frigate,projectile,DestMOFASnova.ebg setDeathEvent R1,CLASS_Frigate,beam,DestMOFASnova.ebg
Scroll down to the very bottom of the file and add this line in the EFFECT LOADING section
LoadEffect novabody.ebg
That should do it.